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Zebit was ready for them. Twenty thousand loyal, fuzzy-headed, yelling soldiers under Minister of War Degiac Mulugheta smote the howling rebels hip and thigh, routed them, slew their leader, the Imperial Consort Ras Gugas Wali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Luckless Empress | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Last Loop. "He ascended on Oct. 27, 1918, only two weeks before the end of the War. He attacked and crashed one enemy plane. Another attacked him. He was wounded in the right thigh, but sent the enemy down in flames. An entire formation of German Fokkers attacked him from all sides. Shot this time in the left thigh, he sent down two more planes. He lost consciousness for a few minutes, but recovered from his dive and singled out one of the following enemy planes. He sent it, also, to earth in flames. His left elbow was shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Caterpillars | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden, full to the rafters, Primo Camera, Italian monster (6 ft. 6 in.), strode toward the ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carnera v. Peterson | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan, wounded in the thigh, was promoted to Admiral. Soon after the Virginia's drawn battle with the Monitor, Norfolk was abandoned, the Virginia scuttled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Poisoning | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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